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There is a need for concerted efforts on the part of the international
community to link up agro-biotechnologies and intellectual property rights
with development objectives, August 2005.

This was highlighted by Pranav Desai of the Centre for Studies in Science
Policy of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in a paper ?Challenges of
agro-biotechnologies, intellectual property rights and globalization?
published in Asian Biotechnology and Development Review.

Desai noted that the new economic environment of liberalized policies,
increasing globalization, and the presence of emerging technologies, has
shaped the direction for science and technology and its organizational
structure. This reality has raised several socio-economic, ethical and
political issues that need to be addressed. For example, national systems of
innovations are under increasing strain due to liberalization, competition,
increasing range of technologies, and uneven technological development.
Similarly, strategies to maximize benefits of emerging technologies should
take into account means to dovetail biotechnology with economic priorities,
resource endowment and the science and technology infrastructure of a
country.

Read the full article in the Volume 7, No. 2 issue of Asian Biotechnology
and Development Review.

Visit the journal?s website at [www.ris.org.in]

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